Northbrook Humanitarian Shares Percussive Massage Therapy with Children of Teule Orphanage in Kenya, East Africa

Posted by April Neill Public Relations, Community Contributor

Giving back never felt so good! Northbrook Chiropractor Dr. Warren Bruhl recently traveled to Africa, bringing BuffEnuff healing massage to children of the Teule Orphanage in Lotoikok, Kenya.

Giving back never felt so good! Northbrook Chiropractor Dr. Warren Bruhl recently traveled to Africa, bringing BuffEnuff healing massage to children of the Teule Orphanage in Lotoikok, Kenya. (Posted by April Neill Public Relations, Community Contributor)

Community Contributor April Neill Public Relations

Dr. Warren Bruhl, founding owner and CEO of Percussion Fitness®, has traveled extensively around the world providing chiropractic and manual medicine to help alleviate the suffering millions of people endure. During his recent humanitarian trip to Kenya, East Africa this past month, Dr. Bruhl had the rare opportunity to share good vibes with children of Africa, sharing the healing power of percussive massage therapy with orphans of the Teule Orphanage.

Believing that "equipping the world to heal" with percussive massage therapy can bring about powerful change, during his recent mission trip, Dr. Bruhl provided a BuffEnuff® Power Massager to the leaders at Teule Orphanage and Kimana School of Leadership to help teach youth the value of natural healing. With it's handy grip and cordless functionality, the BuffEnuff® percussion massager is easy for children to use for personal massage, for giving their friends a massage, as well as sharing massages with adults.

Reducing the Stress Response with Percussive Massage.In under resourced areas, children and adults are constantly bombarded by stress induced messages that trigger the fight or flight response. As a result, research has shown stress damages the nerve system, brain, and immune system. The BuffEnuff® percussion massager helps to ease this stress, relaxing tense muscles, improving circulation, and helps the release of powerful relaxation and regenerative chemicals in the body, helping people get more recuperative rest and better function. When there is constant stress from living in poverty, people's bodies tend to break down and they often times have trouble resting, often losing much needed restorative sleep. BuffEnuff used twice a day, morning and night, is a great pick up in the morning and calming agent at night.

During his recurring mission trips to Kenya, Bruhl has noticed that children's bodies harbor tension, unusual pain, and anxiety which is the result of the extreme stress of poverty. When the children felt the healing percussive action of the BuffEnuff® massager and gave their classmates a massage treatment, they laughed joyfully, felt relief, and felt calmer after the treatments. Dr. Bruhl believes this is an important key to helping people in poverty and affecting change. Leaning into his mission and mantra "helping the needed become needed," Bruhl believes that placing the power of healing directly in the children's hands gives them a sense of confidence and pride in being able to give a massage to their friends and do something good for others.

The Teule Orphanage is located in Lotoikok, Kenya and is home to over 80 orphaned children. They provide education and help children launch into society, giving them even a college education. Children also learn farming, bee keeping, and other valuable ways they can earn a living locally. Children also are supported to go on to university. Dr. Bruhl states, "Some of these children may also be inspired to pursue a career in healthcare because they learned how to heal using the BuffEnuff® ."

At the Kimana School where Dr. Bruhl is a director, children are exposed to more opportunities because of his influence and his charity, Dreamweaver. They have tablet learning available, seminars on aviation, natural healing, and small simple business concepts. Children are also taught the value of taking ownership of their community, keeping their environment clean as waste is a major problem all over Africa and countries living in poverty. Students at Kimana school also receive ongoing chiropractic check ups from doctors visiting the school frequently, including Dr. Bruhl when he is there on mission work.

A New Vision for Ending Poverty & Global ChallengesIn addition to his humanitarian work, Dr. Bruhl is also the author of "Wavers & Beggars - New Insight and Hope to End Poverty and Global Challenges," a book exploring poverty and new insights to overcoming global challenges. In the book, Bruhl recognizes that to end poverty, we have to think outside the box. Bruhl adds, "We can't keep doing the same thing and expect a different outcome. Typical charitable aid is dysfunctional and leads to more dependence. Moreover it teaches almost no independent problem solving thinking. The premise of my book, "Wavers & Beggars," and what I personally believe a better plan to be includes being thoughtful and strategic with charitable giving and thinking through the value, sustainability, and morality that programs will teach. We believe "helping the needed become needed," is a key foundational concept for successful charitable programs and we're excited with the positive changes we're seeing in Kenya with the programs we've initiated over the last 5 years."

The BuffEnuff® Power Massager, placing massage therapy in the hands of the people, is one of those strategic projects, fostering powerful self healing for children and adults, just about anywhere and anytime.

Other passion projects led by Bruhl and Dreamweaver include launching little league baseball teams, their Bulls and Billy Goats program that brings livestock to communities, Gear for Goals that provides children with sports equipment and hope around the world, as well as scholarships, chiropractic care, education, and more.

Bruhl adds, "While at a little church in Kimana, I learned a pastor of the church was recently run off the road by a truck on his motorbike. He had been in a coma and had over 40 stitches in his head. He was still in a lot of pain, unsteady and asked if I could help him. I offered to give him a chiropractic adjustment and taught another pastor how to give him a BuffEnuff® massage treatment. Witnessing the ease and peace come back into his body as he relaxed and received the healing is why I do what I do. Knowing the BuffEnuff massager made that healing possible and is why I love leading this company and why I'm passionate about sharing the healing and continuing to fulfill our mission to "Equip the World to Heal."

"We believe there is a need for more effective ways to manage pain. Hard, punishing physical work around the world is the normal for millions around the world. Manual labor, earning a living through digging, lifting, carrying, or constructing something is the work of many people and as a result, millions suffer with painful muscles and joints," states Bruhl.

According to Bruhl, healthcare can be limited or nearly absent in some of the places he serves and chiropractic, physical therapy, massage therapy, and other forms of manual medicine may be non-existent or never even heard of by local residents.

"Fortunately, the BuffEnuff® Power Massager can help bring an end to this suffering and provide families and workers with a system and product that they can self-administer and improve their health outcomes, leading to escalating economic health for the community," states Bruhl.

For these reasons and more, Bruhl and his team including licensed massage therapist Jason Auer-Sears and CrossFit Coach Jimmy Greninger developed the BuffEnuff® Power Massager to "Equip the World to Heal."

In addition to his humanitarian efforts and new book, Bruhl is also a licensed pilot and aims to expand his efforts by piloting air craft assisted mission work deep in the heart of Africa.

For more information about BuffEnuff® and Percussion Fitness' Global Health initiatives, visit PercussionFitness.com.